Music Retrieval Demo

This is a small demonstration of some audio retrieval-by-similarity work
I have recently been pursuing. The aim is to automatically find audio
clips that sound "similar," in some sense, to an example clip. Here's a
brief
explanation of how the demo works, and some reasons
why this use of other people's music doesn't constitute
copyright infringement.

Below is a scrollable list of more than 250 sound clips, which are
7-second excerpts from longer musical recordings. Representative genres
include jazz, pop, rock, rap, and techno, as well as Brazilian music,
plainsong, solo piano, guitar, and "easy listening." Click "Play" to
play the selected clip or "Search" to find music that sounds similar to
your selection. The number to the left is a similarity score; the
larger the number the closer the match. Clicking "Reset" then "Search"
will give you an alphabetical listing of available artists/tracks.